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DRAFT JANUARY 10, 2012 <br />and international significance, linking its chemical, oil, and agriculture <br />industries with markets and suppliers located throughout the world." <br />Despite the recession, the region's waterborne freight tonnage is expected <br />to grow by approximately 45 percent by 2035, with the Port of Houston <br />projected to experience an increase of nearly 42 million tons. <br />The Port of Houston is a general purpose, deep -water cargo port that ranks <br />first in the United States in terms of foreign waterborne commerce and <br />second in terms of total tonnage. The port consists of a complex of public <br />and private docking facilities and industrial parks that extend for 25 miles <br />along the Houston Ship Channel. The ship channel and its tributaries and <br />basins are a 50 -mile long waterway that reaches from the head of Galveston <br />Bay at Morgan's Point just north of La Porte to and including the turning <br />basin within the City limits of Houston. A shallow -draft channel extends up <br />Buffalo Bayou from the turning basin to the Main Street Bridge. Additional <br />facilities of the port are located along the upper west side of the Galveston <br />Bay at Bayport near Red Bluff, which is adjacent to the south of La Porte. <br />The Port of Houston handles 40 percent of all freight moving through Texas <br />ports. This port is also ranked first in the U.S. in handling petro - chemicals. <br />Barbours Cut Terminal <br />The Barbours Cut Terminal is located in Morgan's Point near <br />the Galveston Bay opening to the Houston Ship Channel, <br />adjacent to the north City limits of La Porte. It is largest <br />container terminal on the U.S. Gulf Coast. It operates under a <br />computerized inventory control system that tracks the status <br />and location of individual containers. The terminal also <br />29 Ibid. <br />30 Port of Houston website. <br />A CO1v1MUNITY VIS[ON FOR LA 1'ORTE TEXAS - 2010 UPDATE <br />